Re: [WSG] Will HTML be nicer to PHP than XHTML?

2005-07-04 Thread Chris Gandolfo
The language is only as sloppy as the person writing it. Back to the question, in my personal projects I have been running the Smarty PHP template engine with xhtml 1.0 strict formatted templates and content without any problems. At work we run a much more dynamic version of the engine with html

Re: [WSG] font size in a table

2005-07-04 Thread Hope Stewart
On 4/7/05 2:42 PM, russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope could just have easily changed from an incomplete HTML4.01 Transitional doctype to a complete version. This is not a criticism of Hope, as she may have had other reasons for moving to XHML. This was not a conscience nor

[WSG] Is br / friendly to accessibility?

2005-07-04 Thread tee
I presume br / is part of the standards since it passes HTML 4.01 Strict XHTML 1.0 strict validation but does it accessible friendly? Coming from the print design background it always disturb me to see the first word of the new sentence lonely let behind with the previous sentence. Knowing how

Re: [WSG] Is br / friendly to accessibility?

2005-07-04 Thread Svip
To what I know, search engines, browsers and other items that reads the Internet and the Web for that matter, searches through tags like this: [tag]* Meaning that no matter what tag it is, it will always replace the * with... anything, cause it was assumed that when the web started, people my

[WSG] semantically correct markup for pagination

2005-07-04 Thread Marco Della Pina
Title: semantically correct markup for pagination Hi all, does anybody have an example of a semantically correct markup for a pagination like on www.google.com with previous and next links? Best regards from Germany, Marco Della Pina

Re: [WSG] IE's doing it again

2005-07-04 Thread Wayne Godfrey
Maybe I wasn't specific enough, this layout works just fine. My main content (middle column) is first in the source code. When I hooked the layout to my database all the clearing worked as promised. My problem is in the header and specifically the subnav which, in IE, throws the rest of the

Re: [WSG] IE's doing it again

2005-07-04 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 5 Jul 2005, at 2:15 AM, Wayne Godfrey wrote: My problem is in the header and specifically the subnav which, in IE, throws the rest of the layout out of whack. The logo and main nav are fixed in size, but I would like the subnav font to size up or down as the rest of the layout does.

Re: [WSG] Visited Link Styling

2005-07-04 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Chris Kennon wrote: Strike-through styling for visited links, I've heard differing opinions on this method, but am asking the consensus of the WSG. a:visited { text-decoration: line-through; } As others pointed out, it's more of a usability question, but to add my GBP 0.02 to the issue and

RE: [WSG] semantically correct markup for pagination

2005-07-04 Thread Webmaster
Title: semantically correct markup for "pagination" In what language, Marco? This type of functionalityis built intoalmost anysite's search page. You can find examples of it everywhere. Using PHP you would just set a couple of variables and then perform anumrows count and repeat of the same

Re: [WSG] semantically correct markup for pagination

2005-07-04 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster wrote: In what language, Marco? As he asked for semantically correct markup, how's about HTML? ;) I'd be tempted to say ordered list of links on this one. -- Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used

Re: [WSG] Visited Link Styling

2005-07-04 Thread Terrence Wood
or some people, like me, just find line-through links annoying =) regards Terrence Wood. On 5 Jul 2005, at 12:23 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: As others pointed out, it's more of a usability question ** The discussion list for

RE: [WSG] Visited Link Styling

2005-07-04 Thread Paul Bennett
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Re: [WSG] Visited Link Styling

2005-07-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 08:47 AM 6/30/2005, Chris Kennon wrote: Strike-through styling for visited links, I've heard differing opinions on this method, but am asking the consensus of the WSG. a:visited { text-decoration: line-through; } Chris, I don't see any ambiguity. Crossing out text indicates that it's

Re: [WSG] IE's doing it again

2005-07-04 Thread Wayne Godfrey
This is breaking my heart, as I love the structure of the source. I tried the clear myself before asking for help, but it still messes up IE/win, as you found out. I'll try to get the CSS file back down to basics and see if I can get it to work a little bit at a time. Thanks for the help and

Re: [WSG] semantically correct markup for pagination

2005-07-04 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster wrote: I wasn't aware this could be achieved dynamically using HTML. Nobody said anything about HTML creating the pagination links dynamically. Have I missed something? Does PHP not represent well-formed and meaningful data? PHP outputs whatever HTML markup you tell it to output,

RE: [WSG] semantically correct markup for pagination

2005-07-04 Thread Webmaster
Sorry Patrick. I was way off. I thought he was asking how to achieve the task in its enirety. I've revisited the originel email and, in my defence, it really wasn't terribly explicit. Now to tackle those Googlers. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

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2005-07-04 Thread Webmaster
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[WSG] base css

2005-07-04 Thread csslist
what are you guys using as a base css file to start a site with common hacks and what not? Thanks happy 4th :)

Re: [WSG] base css

2005-07-04 Thread Andrew Krespanis
what are you guys using as a base css file to start a site with common hacks and what not? plug http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/10/07/css-negotiation/ /plug and plug http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/10/19/global-ws-reset/ /plug Couldn't help myself ;) Andrew.

Re: [WSG] semantically correct markup for pagination

2005-07-04 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster wrote: Sorry Patrick. I was way off. No worries...happens to me most of the time as well :) Now to tackle those Googlers. That's the spirit! -- Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively

Re: [WSG] base css

2005-07-04 Thread heretic
plug Couldn't help myself ;) Patience is a virtue, young padawan ;) h -- --- http://www.200ok.com.au/ --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] base css

2005-07-04 Thread heretic
Hi there, what are you guys using as a base css file to start a site with common hacks and what not? These days I invariably kick off with the global whitespace reset (hi Andrew!) http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/10/19/global-ws-reset/ ...and some controlled whitespace settings. If I

[WSG] Broken link

2005-07-04 Thread Opie, David
The link to 'WCAG 1.0 Guidelines and Checkpoints for Flash' is dead, can someone pls fix. Thanks David --- IMPORTANT: This email from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and any attachments to it, contain information that is confidential and may also be the subject of

RE: [WSG] base css

2005-07-04 Thread Webmaster
If I know the base font I'll set that and some default colours, then set a % text size in the body {}, to avoid any font-size setting smaller than 1em. Hi Heretic, please explain this. How does setting a % for text-size in body prevent the appearance of smaller than 1em font sizes? Is 100% a